Didn't get chance to blog about what I had been doing lately so here's a compiled mix of it all.
Good news first:
- Now Empathy multi-user chats are separated from the chat-room windows they are displayed in. i.e. users will be able to join/leave chats without closing the room [commit].
I am working on the opposite i.e enabling the user to continue being connected to a chat when chat-room window has been closed (bug).
- The /part command is working for chat-rooms and private MUCs (bug [commit])
UPDATE: There was a small fault in part message construction in telepathy-idle. It was not sticking to correct format of PART messages as per RFC 2812 sections 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 which was preventing the full part message from being displayed to the members. It has been fixed in this bug now.
- To prevent a user from deleting significant accounts like freenode from list of networks, a new "Reset Networks List" button was added in the IRC Network Chooser dialog (bug [commit])
- Insight into telepathy-idle
- Using Wireshark to monitor packets sent to and received from a network
- Conflict resolution after rebasing.
To help me gain more experience with conflicts, Danni has given me two massive branches to rebase.
There were some not so cool things also like, I started my work on notification for enabling/connecting a disabled/disconnected account when trying to connect to rooms affiliated to it (bug) but it eventually turned out to be blocked by this bug. There must be some comparison workaround used by Empathy to keep things working which I am yet to discover! A particular horrible thing was my hardisk snap and not having an up-to-date backup added to it but I was happy to be able to recover my data (thanks to Danni). It was another learning experience and I'll dedicate a separate post to it.
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Gnome.Asia Summit 2011 will be held in Bangalore, India this time. I am happy to get a chance to speak about my internship experience in my talk- Contributions made by a newbie to the free desktop's "Empathy", in front of such assorted community of developers, documenters, marketing people, GNOME users and prospective contributors. I am particularly exited about getting a chance to see the biggies of this world! :D
Nice feature additions you are doing to Empathy. You seem to be enjoying all the coding. :-)
ReplyDeleteNo second thoughts to it! :)
ReplyDeleteHey Chandani,
ReplyDeletePut up the slides or any material you would be using for your talk. I am not sure I would be able to come for GNOME.asia even though I am living in Bangalore.
OTOH I saw you applied for GNOME Foundation membership. Is it still pending?
Hi Manish, I haven't yet begun creating them but rest assured I will be submitting them soon. :)
ReplyDeleteAbout the membership I haven't received any confirmation yet but if not this time, i'll try again after some more contributions!